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    zIIP Eligible Q-APPLY

    Currently the SQL Queries in QREP Apply are CPU-intensive. The CPU cost of those queries cost more than our top 5 application programs combined. We recommend to make Q APPLY Queries zIIP eligible to reduce the CPU cost for QREP APPLY.
    10 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Future consideration

    To resolve the backup failure issue caused by identical hostnames across IIAS appliances running in Docker containers.

    Assigning unique hostnames to each IIAS appliance (or container) is essential because backup tools like EMC NetWorker rely on hostnames to identify and manage client systems. When multiple appliances use the same hostname, EMC NetWorker cannot dif...
    5 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Replication for Availability (LUW, Db2 Warehouse) 0 Under review

    location property exposed in bigquery connector

    Is it possibile to consider exposing the location property in the bigquery connector such that a default location can be forced CP4D side? Executing jobs that use the statements SELECT FROM EXTERNAL TABLE while the bigquery database is located in ...
    10 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

    ALTER table DATA CAPTURE NONE not detected by IIDR QREP or CDC

    If 'ALTER table DATA CAPTURE NONE' is executed against a table that is actively replicating, any changes made to the source data will not be captured or replicated until ‘ALTER table DATA CAPTURE CHANGES' is executed. This would cause the target...
    over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

    JDBC connection with Kerberos not working

    Unable to establish a JDBC connection from Windows using Kerberos authentication. Windows is supported and so is Kerberos so this should be working. IBM code doesn't take into account using API as ccache or MSLSA with credential guard. That is a c...
    11 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

    Add an ability to start a q subscription via MODIFY on the Capture started task

    Currently Q Capture subscriptions can be interacted with either via MODIFY command invoked on a Q Capture started task, or SQL insert statements executed on table IBMQREP_SIGNAL. For many customers, executing a MODIFY command to perform an action ...
    over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Future consideration

    DataStage MQ Connector does not support use of the userid and password under UNIX

    We are trying to configure MQ Connector to connect to MQ Server using userid and password. Connection fails with "2035 MQRC_NOT_AUTHORIZED". Connection works only without authentication. PMR confirmed we need to submit enhancement request to add n...
    almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

    Snowflake Connector Error handling

    1) We encountered an issue while using the insert or update option. The continue on error option does not work and the job fails if it encounters bad data. We opened a case with IBM. There is no reject capture mechanism. Workaround: Two step solut...
    about 5 years ago in Connectivity 6 Not under consideration

    Display of replication throughput per subscription

    Today Q Apply stores detailed performance statistics on queue level. This idea raises the request to store certain Q Apply throuput statistics (like rows_processed) on subscription level. Background: Today it is very difficult / sometime impossibl...
    over 6 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

    Allow Db2 columnar table replication to watsonx.data

    Truist has obtained 3M+ of Data Replication entitlements in Q1 of 2025 to replicate data from Exadata and Db2 WH to Snowflake. Db2 WH table are all in columnar format and Truist would like for the tables to stay the same way. Our current proposed ...
    6 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Replication for Availability (LUW, Db2 Warehouse) 0 Submitted

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